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Brassia juninensis is an orchid species identified by C.Schweinf. in 1945. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Brassia koehlerorum.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru at elevations of 790 to 1200 meters in very wet montane forests.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte that blooms in the spring and again in the fall on a basal, arcuate to horizontal, emerging from the uppermost, basal leaf axil, 10 1/4 [25.5 cm] long, bracteate, racemose, several to many [10 to 18] flowered inflorescence which arises on a fully mature pseudobulb, carrying fragrant [chocolate-like], heavy textured flowers. The gradually tapered, narrowly elliptic-oblong, lightly compressed pseudobulbs carry 2 oblong or narrowly elliptic, attenuate into a short conduplicate petiole, apical, acute leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 3/4 inches [9 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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